Low Budget Paper Version

[stefnotch]

Speeddating - outsourcing your job to the participants

Organising an event, with somewhere between 50 and 150 participants:

1. Spreadsheet: Generate short ID (easy to write down) and UUID (unique, not easily guessable) for 200 participants
2. Printer: Print out the IDs and UUIDs, each participant gets a sheet that says something like
   "Welcome!"
   "Your ID is ..."
   "Speeddating explanation - make sure to write down the IDs of people you like"
   "At the end, please go to https://..../UUID and write down the people you liked"
3. At the event, everyone who comes gets one of those sheets
4. At the event, people do speeddating and manually keep track of who they like. e.g. They write down the IDs and some cute stuff onto a piece of paper.
5. After the event, people go to their personalized link https://..../UUID
6. Form: The personalized link is simply an online form. Here they have to enter

• their contact info
• the IDs of the people they liked
• the UUID is already prefilled and can't be guessed, so one participant can only enter their own stuff

7. Spreadsheet: Every submitted form gets put into a spreadsheet and matches get displayed through the power of spreadsheet magic
8. Contacting: Sending emails to all the matches, maybe this can be automated.

[stefnotch]

Note how that can be done with off-the-shelf products like Google Forms and Google Sheets and the Fachschaft Printer.

I bet someone could write a guide plus tools for that in 48 hours.